Taking Sides!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Nationwide Mercury Prize
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas
Editors - The Back Room
Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
Hot Chip - The Warning
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Zoe Rahman - Melting Pot
Lou Rhodes - Beloved One
Scritti Politti - White Bread, Black Beer
Sway - This Is My Demo
Thom Yorke - The Eraser

Popjustice £20 prize
'Biology' - Girls Aloud
'DARE' - Gorillaz
'Destroy Everything You Touch' - Ladytron
'I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)' - Rachel Stevens
'Number One' - Goldfrapp
'Over & Over' - Hot Chip
'Push The Button' - Sugababes
'Smile' - Lily Allen
'Supermassive Black Hole' - Muse
'Up All Night' - Matt Willis
'Valentine' - The Delays
'Who Am I?' - Will Young

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

as i have just pointed out on the Other Place, there is the same number of black people on each list, ie 1.

i haven't actually heard any of the albums nominated! though i kind of half-heartedly want to hear sway, scritti politti and hot chip.

singles - rachel s and sugababes outstrip the competition by a VERY VERY long way.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

how many black people on the selection committee/judging panel etc. is perhaps the real 'problem'.

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Lex: both Gorillaz and Sugababes have black members, plus Rachel Stevens is a pork refuser.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

he's not bothered about Jewish representation tho

Dangermouse = presumably a 'mash-up' racially? (ha ha this is dodgy territory)